Good Wolf is a childrens paperback picture book
about a female wolf searching for her mate. Every page has brightly
colored illustrations, which seem to be done in marker and colored
pencil. The illustrations are interesting though not very professionally
done. It appears that Griffin is working to fill in white space
and so there are a series of swirls and slashes and scribbling
marks that surround the animals on most of the pages. The quality
of the artwork is also sporadic from page to page.

The story is rather long for a picture book and could have
used some editing. The plot follows the wolf through the woods
meeting all kinds of animals, until she finds a mate, and then
they have children. It is a simple plot and could have been explored
with a lot less wordiness. It is also a bit hard to read because
of inconsistent punctuation and a prolific use of exclamation
points, which usually just indicates that the words are not doing
the work that they should.

There are a couple of lovely pages. I particularly like the
page with a raccoon and two bears. The bears appear to be done
in watercolor, and the composition of the animals and colors
on the page is very nice. The simple and often forced rhyming
pattern throughout hinders the overall effect of the story though.
I think children would find the story rather boring. It is very
difficult to pull off anthropomorphism on the scale that Griffin
attempts.